The Dao Ancestor Returns and Turns Her Nemesis into a Puppet

[Lost inspiration after too much time passed. Waiting for the day I fill in this hole]

There was a female Dao Ancestor on Mount Qingcheng. She founded Qingcheng Academy, the finest in the world, taught three thousand disciples, and spread her blessings across the land.

When she slew the demon lord and ascended, everyone rejoiced and cheered for her. They even built a temple and offered incense in her memory.

No one could have imagined that, just a few hundred years later, she would return to the cultivation world as an obscure, penniless girl, only to be snapped up as a disciple by her longtime rival, Zhengxian Academy.

A century ago, Zhengxian Academy was a rising force, but now it has fallen into such ruin that it can't hold a candle to Qingcheng Academy.

To earn a few more spirit stones for cultivation and make a body for the skeleton puppet she picked up along the way, the Dao Ancestor sets up a stall by day and performs for money by night. In her spare time, she even has to fight a couple of battles on behalf of the shabby academy.

After she painstakingly gathers the materials for a body for her poor, adorable little skeleton, she turns around to find that the little skeleton has grown flesh on its own. And that face looks exactly like the founder of her archenemy, Zhengxian Academy.

Dao Ancestor: "Change back."

One sentence is all it takes to make the little skeleton storm off in a huff.

"..."

Dao Ancestor: "I was joking!"

The truth is, she knew who he was all along.

*

Lu Wuming has been dead for many years, long since gone from this world.

When he was alive, he offended plenty of people, and he has no idea which of them might be out for revenge.

When he opens his eyes again, a young woman has turned him into a skeleton puppet.

The girl is desperately poor and short on spiritual power, and someone is hunting her down. She flatly refuses his request to bury him back in the ground, declaring instead that he'll have to work off his debt.

"I was trying to make the corpse beside you into a puppet. Now I've only managed to make a skeleton, so you're responsible for it."

Lu Wuming watches her dig her own grave with cold eyes.

She is terrible at crafting artifacts, but remarkably skilled with puppets. She is clearly cut out for the crooked path.

And yet she has somehow joined the very Zhengxian Academy he founded.

He watches her use her peerless puppet skills to overcome challenge after challenge, leading Zhengxian Academy back to the top of the five great academies.

He also recognizes who she used to be.

Chu Rou, Dao Ancestor of Mount Qingcheng.

His archenemy.

Looking at his enemy, Lu Wuming reaches out in the darkness toward the sleeping woman on the bed and grips her throat. He gazes at her coldly for a long while, then lowers his head and kisses her deeply.

Only he knows that the Dao Ancestor of Qingcheng is a vicious, jealous woman who is nothing like her reputation.

*Archenemies ×

*Old flames (>_

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